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'Five years are a long space of time, Plantagenet. Events will happen in five years, even at Cherbury. I told you I was changed. 'Yes! said Lord Cadurcis, in a voice of some anxiety, with a scrutinising eye. 'You left me a happy child; you find me a woman, and a miserable one. 'Good God, Venetia! this suspense is awful. Be brief, I pray you. Has any one
It was only the other night; yes! not a week ago; that he made me sit up with him all night, while he was telling stories of Cherbury: you see I am quite familiar with the spot, he added, smiling. 'You are very intimate with your cousin, I see, said Lady Annabel. 'I live a great deal with him, said George Cadurcis.
To tell you the truth, though their immediate return to Cherbury was inevitable, and their residence here for a time is scarcely to be deprecated, I still hope they will not bury themselves here. For my part, after the necessary interval, I wish to see Venetia once more in the world. Lord Cadurcis looked very mournful, and shook his head.
Lord Cadurcis had not returned to Cherbury a week before this scheme entered into the head of Lady Annabel.
We shall begin our account of this transition period with Nicolas, and end it with the Englishmen, Bacon, Hobbes, and Lord Herbert of Cherbury. In Italy the new spiritual birth shows an aesthetic, scientific, and humanistic tendency; in Germany it is pre-eminently religious emancipation in the Reformation. Nicolas of Cusa.%
All seemed to be impelled, as it were, by a restless desire for repose. Cherbury was the only thought in Venetia's mind. She observed nothing; she made no remark during their journey; they travelled often throughout the night; but no obstacles occurred, no inconveniences. There was one in this miserable society whose only object in life was to support Venetia under her terrible visitation.
She had seen that father, that surpassing parent, who had satisfied alike her heart and her imagination; she had been clasped to his bosom; she had lived to witness even her mother yield to his penitent embrace. And he too was gone; she could never meet him again in this world; in this world in which they had experienced such exquisite bliss; and now she was once more at Cherbury!
The general impression of the villagers was that Lady Annabel was a widow; and yet there were some speculators who would shrewdly remark, that her ladyship had never worn weeds, although her husband could not have been long dead when she first arrived at Cherbury.
Cadurcis bowed. 'I parted from her about two months back, continued the Bishop. 'And Cherbury, dear Cherbury, is it unchanged? 'They have not resided there for more than two years. 'Indeed! 'They have lived, of late, at Weymouth, for the benefit of the sea air. 'I hope neither Lady Annabel nor her daughter needs it? said Lord Cadurcis, in a tone of much feeling.
But we must pass over the earlier Deists, of whom the most notable was Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and come at once to a writer who, although his most notorious work was published before the seventeenth century closed, lived and wrote during the eighteenth, and may fairly be regarded as belonging to that era.
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